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My dead.net user photo is a picture of a Hand Painted Original “The Acid Test” Banner from, The Last Legal Acid Test, hosted by Ken Kesey that The Grateful Dead played in front of in the 1966 “Whatever It Is" Festival held at “San Francisco State College” in the gymnasium? HAVE YOU SEE IT BEFORE? WHERE YOU AT THAT 16TH ACID TEST AT SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE IN 1966 WHEN THIS BANNER WAS ON DISPLAY OR HAVE YOU SEEN IT ON DISPLAY ANYWHERE ELSE? I CAN EMAIL A NUMBER OF EXCELLENT PICTURE OF IT TO YOU IF YOU LIKE! It is a Hand Painted Original “The Acid Test” Banner from, The Last Legal Acid Test, hosted by Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs, with other Merry Pranksters, held at “San Francisco State College” in the gymnasium in the 1966 at the “Whatever It Is" Festival? The Details Date of the festival are September 30 to October 2, 1966 less than a week before LSD officially became a controlled substance in California on October 6, 1966. October 2nd is explicitly recognized as the 16th Acid Test by Wikipedia Acid Test chronology and by Brian Cassidy; who owns and operates "Type Punch Matrix;” Brian is a rare memorabilia and signed first edition book dealer. The three-day multimedia event was officially called the "Whatever It Is" festival. Total Number of Tests: There were approximately 18 Acid Tests in total held between late 1965 and the fall of 1966. This included the famous "Acid Test Graduation" ceremony held later on Halloween night, 1966, which took place after the drug had already been outlawed. The "Whatever It Is" festival featured a historic, chaotic performance by the Grateful Dead and marked Kesey's first public reemergence after hiding out in Mexico as a fugitive. This is an official banner explicitly created for and based on the album art of Ken Kesey's 1966 cult LP The Acid Test. "The Acid Test" L.P. was released in March of 1966 the "Whatever It Is Festival" at “San Francisco State” was within 6 months of that L.P. release in September of 1966. The banner is a promotional display piece to advertise “The Acid Test” L.P. record. This historic artifact is a large, hand-painted canvas banner measuring 11 feet by 5.5 feet. Here are the key details surrounding the banner; It directly mimics the distinctive black-and-white psychedelic cover design of the original Sound City LP. The "16 ACID" Connection: The backside (verso) of the banner features the handwritten text "16 ACID" and "ACID TEST" in black marker. Counterculture historians note that this directly ties it to the 16th Acid Test, which took place during the "Whatever It Is Festival" at San Francisco State University in late 1966. The Last Legal Test: This specific event is legendary because it marked Ken Kesey’s first public reemergence after fleeing to Mexico, and it was the last legal Acid Test held just days before California officially banned LSD on October 6, 1966. The Grateful Dead: Like the album itself, which features background audio loops and instrumentation by the band, the Grateful Dead performed live at the festival where this banner was hung. Because the LP originally had an incredibly small private press run of only 500 copies, both the album and this accompanying event banner are considered exceptionally rare grails of 1960s psychedelic history. Original variants of the banner have occasionally surfaced. The 11 x 5.5 foot original canvas banner for Ken Kesey's The Acid Test occupies a fascinating and highly valuable niche in 1960s counterculture memorabilia, sitting right at the intersection of legendary literature, early psychedelic art, and the history of the Grateful Dead because it is a unique, historic piece rather than a mass-produced collectible. The Grateful Dead played shows directly in front of and alongside these exact hand-painted Paul Foster signs during the late 1965 and early 1966 Acid Test gatherings. The Grateful Dead played at Ken Kesey’s legendary Acid Tests through 1966, including the famous in-studio session that became "The Acid Test" LP. Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs, with other Merry Pranksters, were both in attendance at “San Francisco State College” in the gymnasium in the 1966 at the “Whatever It Is" Festival? That event featured a variety of hand-painted signs, banners, and psychedelic decor created by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Prominent Merry Prankster artists like Paul Foster and Norman Hartweg hand-crafted many of these early pieces. PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY THIS BANNER. HAVE YOU SEE IT BEFORE? WHERE YOU AT THAT 16TH ACID TEST AT SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE IN 1966 WHEN THIS BANNER WAS ON DISPLAY OR HAVE YOU SEEN IT ON DISPLAY ANYWHERE ELSE? I hope to hear from you. Thank you for helping me. All the best David Howard, please send me Email to: info (AT) tribalartasia.com

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